Saturday, March 7, 2009

Using Google Alerts to find your work online

If you've read "Release Your Writing," or are generally web savvy, you already know that setting up a free Google alert lets you find any reference to your book, or your other writing online. You'd be surprised where you might turn up.

Today I receive this Google alert:

I followed the link and was pleased to see it is imported from my publisher, not reprinted locally.

I was delighted to find my books, and those of some of my clients there. Set up a Google alert for your own name or that of your books, and request a daily email. You never know where you might turn up next.

About Me

Helen Gallagher is a national speaker and publishing consultant. Today, her thriving consulting practice is augmented by her writing on business and technology, with over 100 articles in major business and trade publications.
Just for fun, to celebrate ten years in business, Helen wrote her first book: "Computer Ease," selected by Forbes.com Book Club, and winner of a non-fiction award from the Illinois Women's Press Association (IWPA) in 2006. Helen is a contributor to Lonely Planet's Travelers Tales book, "The World is a Kitchen". Her essay won the IWPA award in 2007. Her 2007 book "Release Your Writing: Book Publishing Your Way" helps writers find the path to their dream of getting published. "Release Your Writing" is a USA Book News Award finalist. Helen's newest book "Blog Power & Social Media Handbook" hit store shelves in August 2010.
Helen's freelance writing appears in national magazines and numerous online sites. She is also a book reviewer for BlogCritics Magazine, OpenSalon.com and New York Journal of Books.
Helen supports organizations that support writers: member of ASJA, IWWG, OCWW, MWA, SPAWN.ORG